The Sun. — London, England, 1810-12-25 00:00:00

-NAVAL NEWS PLYMOUTH, DEG., 23.—Arrived last night the •Princess packei, Captain KIDD, frOm Lisbon in 12 days, with mail and passengers; Co= l one) BAilluttsT, with dispatches froth General Lord WELLINGTON' for Got:eminent, came pas senger in the packet, rrom which he immediately sanded and set off for London. The hostile armies .are stated to occupy die same positions as before ; that of the Allies said to be in high' ht:alth and .spirits; Mr. JU4TIN VULLIAMY, Mr. ;JOHN' MIL -IER, and Lieut. FORBES, of the 4th Dragoons, came ;passengers; the Princess Elizabeth, , was eight days becalmed after leaving Lisbon. This morning Mr. LUCIEN BUONAFAII&T'E j aCCOM. Pilled by Mr. MACKENZIE, sat off from King's: Arms, in this_ town, for Ludlow, in Shropshire, which place he has fixed on for his residence during his stay in this country. Madame. fitioNApARTE, family, and suite will follow in a few days.— At present the Litter remain at the King's Arius,. they meet with every polite attention from the neigh• touring gentry and those of this town. Arrived the American ship Char W ILLIAM DANsey, master, frum.Bellast, with a cargo, bound to Lisbon, put in here in distress, laving carried away her-bowsprit, and receied damage in a gale of wind. Put back by contrary winds and stormy wea ther, the American vessel Mary, DAVIS ; for Waterford. FALMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Inirepi4 log ger privateer, Capt. BURREST, from the Medilerra mean, 16 days from Gibraltar. 'When she sailed the Lady Arabella packet was going into Gibraltar from . • PORTSMOUTH, DEC. '24.—Arrived his. Majesty's ships Palermo, Roman, Venture, and, Port. Mahon, troin cruize. Sailed his Majesty's ships Bonne Cityunne, Hy izna,,Sprightly, and fielder. Came into harbour his Majesty's ship Jasper. We sated yesterday the unfortunate loss of the 1 7 ymphe and Pallas hives on the coast of Scot land. The following letter'gives some further par ticulars of the distressing event. They were corn•- tnanded, the Aymphe by Captain CLAY, and the Pallas by Captain MONKS. , c Dunbar, Dec.l9, 1810. Our coast'presents a dreadful spect tele 01 the . itreCks of two fine Irig, , tes, the Pcil/Qtrliif pe gulls, and 11z niphe, of 36; the one a mile beloW Dun bar, and ti.e other three nii,es turfter. Corning• the-Frith, at half -past ten last night, whrp at th , ipte.of ten knots an bout, they both ran aground on the rocks, and exhibit a total wreck, the coast all strewed with beams, planks, casks, Sze. For tunately only seven or. eight wen .have lost their lives in both, who were bought on shore, and every means in vain tried for their recovery. The Isirst Lieutenant was brought out apparently dead /but after halt an hour he was so tar recovered as to be removed to the Duchess of Roxburgh's. He.is now well. It was.elesen this morning before a boat could go to their assistance, although within a callte's length of the shore; and the life-boat upset with forty men in it. Lutitiiy only one was drowned. Most of our regiment have been there all day, guarding the wrecks, and assisting, as far as they could. The miserable appearance (if the half-drown ed seamen, as ,they were carried ashore, was truly .deplorable. Although '!they bad a „pilot on board, they mistook dlime , kiln burning at.Broxmouth for the May-light, and the May for the Bell-rock" The Vigo, 74, a new ship, launched in the Med way about six months ',since,' is ordered to be pre ' pared for commission and fitted for a flag, supposed fOr Rear-Admiral , DIXON, as the Ruby is ordered to he paid off at Chatham ; at which port the Edgar, 74, was.lately paid off. . The Comet, 44, late a store-ship, has been found lanserticeable,•and broken up at Deptford. Mr. D. WEIR, late Masterof her, is appointed to the Swift store-ship at Woolwich. • The • Crescent frigate, launched a few days since et Woolwich,. is preparing for CoMmission, a$ is the Safeguard gun-brig, which has had a repair. it NANA/. APPOINTMENTS.— Capt. Frederick Hoffman, to. the Apelles, vice Oliver ; Capt. Alex. Milner ' to the Dol phin, vice Watson, promoted; Captain Blennelhasset, to the Challenger ; Lieut.,George flin; to the Safeguard gun-brit; ; Lieut. Greensward, Yuen, priscn-ship ; Lieut. S. Rentish, Atielory ; Lieut. H. Preston, Caledonia ; Lieut. Merlin. ,4e clusa; Lieut. k. B. Bowden, Christian Vii. ; l.ieut. Pros per Ambrose, Tweed ; .Lieutenant Bonatny Mansell, Tyrian. Capt. Bell rein sins' in the'Phipps. Mr. SHERIDAN did not chuse, the other day, to :state to the .House, chat the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in 1789, utterly refused to transmit his .fa vourite address to the Prince. He deemed such an ad a dereliction of his duty, and a t . iolation of his oath : for, in his own language, 't the address pur ported to invest I is avyal Highness with powers to take upon him the government of the realm., before he should be enabled by law so to do." The Mrs. GARatcK, who is engaged to perform -et Bath, was-formerly Miss GRAY, of Covent-Gar - -. lien Theatre. She married a 'nephew of Mr. GAR iticx, the great Actor. Saturday the workmen etnJoyed in clearing out the ruins of thy Lite ,fire in „1,..i51e.-street, t•eif task, but not a single ve-tige of thc i•octy of Mrs. Simeon has been found.. AtutYnL-st o , h thin :s dis- .covered were a silver wa:', h; sw;;:' Pocket-book, not nweh bum', *c. belopsing to the law tilitfPdiGlV IN. Poßruvz,. (EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE LETTERS.) Head-quarters, Camaro, Nov. 29, " Massena has completely wasted every thing near hit position in front of the British lines. He has retired to a new and fertile countay, between Santarem and the river Zezere. The Tagus covers his right from insult; the river Zezere and a moun tainous country protea. his rear ; lie has a strong ground ip his front; and his right is not likely to be seriously attacked, as a movement of the British army to that flank might place the fate of the ca pital at the hazard of a battle. " The peasantry ,on all occasions prove them selves full of - patriotism, and continue, whenever it is in their power, the .praaice of. abandoning their homes and property, ,rather than associate with the enemy. Certainly Massena cannot, with his pre sent force, attempt any thing. He will therefore wait in his position for reinforcements." • " Cartaxo, Nov. 30. " Every body in England will, no doubt, be much surprised to hear, that the great battle, so tnucbexpetted at Vllla Franca, has.not yet been fought, nor do I think these .is any probability that any will for some time. We left Zebriera On the tstb instant, the whole of the French 'army having retired during the night, and so silently, that they were not, missed till daylight, when not a vestige of them remained—so much for the good look-out of our advanced picquets, which were within pisiol shot of them. We advanced that day tis a height on this side Soubsil, and occupied huts which she French had left in ttie morning. On the t tjth, we passed Alanguer, which was the head-quarters of Massena, to a village called Mus‘ci No‘a, where we halted on the 17th ;' and on . the 18th moved forward to Cattaxo, where we. found Lord 'Wel lington, whose head-quarters are still here, on this day. " Gen. Hill, with his division, crossed the Ta gus near Villa Nuva. and has, we are told, pro ceeded up - the right bank towards Abrantes. We . found that the French rear-guard occupied the strong, position of Santarem, and that they were to be at tacked the following morning by the left division under Brigadier-General Crawford, a brigade of Por toguese, under Brigadier-General Pack, and Sir W. Er , ,kine's bligade, supported by the remainder of Sir Bi'ent S:ericer's division. Accordingly, on the morning of the 19th, we moved for Ward toward the points of attack, in 'full- expeetanon of honour and glory, when we found the enemy drawn up ready to receive us, and apparently detet mined to stand a (lasting. The position is one of the. strongest .that can be conceived ; San!aretn, on the top of a range of hills, very high and almost perpendicular with a lower range in front, where their first line . %4 as drawn up, at the foot'of which `runs the Ri o Mayor, a branch of the Tagus; • and a large portion of swampy ground, which is only lobe crossed by two causeway,, and, with the bridge across the river," are completely commanded by the guns of the. en •Iny; this was the centre point. The attack way to have commenced by General : Cr.wtord, on..our right—and General Pack, with the Portnuese, the left, tv iu n their flanks ; the centre wasfor'ti:e brigade of Guards, ,nd Sir William Erskine's.— Fortunalcly, .us all, tt wa, delaved by General Pock oot being able to get forward a gun, which was to hare given the signal to commence; for on General Spencer going up,, he was aimost petrified • at the idea, • and declared it imprac ticable. " Lord Wellington remained on a hill in front till dusk,' when, finding the task 'for) difficult, and that the enemy was in greater force than he expe6t ed, which we since know.to be the case, the troopi were moved off in different directions. We are to support Colnnel Elder's battalions of Pt)rtuguese Casadores (light troops), who is to defend the bridge I mentioned above Pante de Clerisa, in case of 'at tack ; but that is for the present rendered impossible by the heavy rains we have had, which have.swelled the rivers to such a degree, that neither army. can get at the 'other, let their inclinations be ever so good. " The French take all the valuables and eatables they can carry off. We ate but poorly off here, and a good deal harasSed ; scarce a house is left in the country with a door Or window-shuiter--Lwindows are out of the question. . A board or two serves . for a table, and he is a lucky fellow who can find a chair or a stool to sit on bed; are out of the ques tion. Since we left Lisbon, I have never taken off more than coat, stock, and shoes, and, put •on my boat cloak and hairy cep ; and am glad if I can get a place to.- lay myself down dry, which has not always been the case. We can - get nothing. but our rations,' except what comes from Lisbon—we live cheap. : Extra of - a letter dated . from Azatfibuj az On the night-of the 14th the enemy retired, and every pet - Son supposed he WAS retreating into Spain, abandoning the projeet of subduing Portugal .--The English army, of copse, was in motion close at his heels, making 'every day a nuinber of prisoners, and burying his dead, which we found in every vil lage.—Four .days after Massena halted at Santarem, where he .now :remains entrenched, with a river in his front. The wet season has commenced,'and : the rains are heavy beyond any thing. I am, thank God, in excellent health. The French army must have suffered greatly from sickness; in one town we passed' through, there were no less than three hundred dead bodies ; and most of the townS and villages have been all destroyed ; merely the .roohi left on the houses, which have been completely' gutted. Nothing can exceed the order, health, and spirits of the . ' allied army,' and their confidence in . our Commander.". " LiSBON, DEC:2.—=-About 10,000 French are entrenched in and about Santarem. Lord Welling son's head-quarters are still abeartaxa and patt of Our army is advanced beyond, and ti.ive separated the French from the ClAmpaign country. About 15,000 under General Hill are still un the South, and oppose the passage ot ihe T4gtts. Siitiera and Wt's:)r) are near. Castle Branco.. Our cavalry 'con tinuaily, harass and conga .z..t:ieir circle': We have t ,ken a coliicy of neatly 2000 bulitCks,, colletleci c , f t t.tt aru)y. • , " reinforcements to tlz amount, perhaps of, fif teen thousaud, colleted from - all 4uarteri, arc on their march to juin the Frrlich army, and several Spanish corps are closing down towards the same ptynt. General Garrena, with about 7600 Spania,tds, 'has arrived. We have thrown sonid Congreve rockets into Santarem. Silviera acid the Portuguese beat' the enemy nobly at Pinhel." CITYELECTION: The polling for the Eleetion of Cominon Council men closed yesterday, and the numbers stood as follow'. FARRING DON WITHOUT. Mr. Quin . - - .662 Mr. Dawson l - 45 1 Watthinan ..- 617 Young - 44 6 Herring - 54 77 Brewer. - - 442 W.. l. Reeves. - - 507 Griffilit - 439 Nichols - 505 - Murrell . - 4,,Ei - • Crook - 485 . *Harper - 436 • Wright - ' 4 6 7 Pontitex , ~ - 435 T. Reeve - 4 6 4 4131 4 . c k e r - 305 Miller - • -.30 *Blundell - - 3 0 4 The former sixteen were elected. YINTRY: Mr. Pickering - 57 1 M r . Schroder -. 56 Whitby - 5 7 Cooper - 53 Cade . - . 56 *Martin - , Jo Gamy . 56 *Spear • - 4 8 . ' Grubb - 5 ' *C;ook - .- -10. ' / The former nine C andidates were Oa : led. BISHOPSGATE. Sir W. Rawlins - 340 Mr. Greenaway Mr. *Clode ' . 338 Windus Duffield . 338 Ross White - 33 1 *Blundell Nash - • 314 1 *lsarton I ttdkins - 301 i( . n i 511 t Marsh - 292 " *Sinai( Davies The first fourteen C a, ALDER - 279 - 243 ;Adates were ele&ed. SGATE. Mr. Thomas Mr. C. King Turner *Rolls ' *Adams 1.; isher 172 171 162 156 - Si The former eig CH; :9 217 109 1,6 205 ros - 105 The former twel ..Betts l'axfog , Loveland t were elided. Mr. Loxley, Deputy Cheesewright tißothyvell - Wright • Hale Farr 2 43 206 378 - 1 53 '59 - '49 7 40 AY. Mr. CumMings , - 10 4 lawman , - 103 Foinier - 9s Smith - 9 3 Swift , - 94 *Sri6i.tt ' - 73 %e were returned. ()URN. *iVlr. Dixon 142 I .liodley - 123 *Wetherby - 122 ritterSon 92 *Thompson .• LANG! Mr. Phillips, Deputy 178 IVillshire - 170 Rankin 167 Ayres - 167 Stubbing - 102 Elliott - 150 The first feu were elected. In PORTSOKEN WARD. Mr. Briscoe was the only Candidate out. Those 'narked thus [*l ,Ire 'New Candidates. Extraft 0; a letter from Captain MAURICE, GO : vernor 'ot Anht_k ; to Vice-Admiral Sir-1%1%1Es SAU - NIA 11/IZ, dated DeCeintier 3, 1810:--" The' most , inelaneholt pit of these distressing circumstances I have now to rela e. On Monday, Nov. 26, a sloop had anchorei, during the nigitt, close in with the beach; the wind on the next dayy - blowing dreadfully bard, a bottle was p'cked up from her with a letter frtn Mr. In w stating their perilous situation : it blew too hard to attempt relieving her. _Tne next mot Mug another letter came, still more la meotabie ; tne life-boat was launched and put off, and the life-shell thrown, both of which failed in getting to her. The Centinel gun-brig was tole' graphed to send a boat' to render assistance, which succeeded in getting to her most delightfully, and lour passengers got • into the boat to go on board; when about ten , yards from the sloop, a sea turned' her 'completely over, and melancholy to relate, the whole (eleven in number) perished in the waves ! amongst them Mr. IRWIN, a merchant, carrying on an extensive trade at thi s I s land, an d w h ose zea in getting us supplies could not be excelled. His ami able disposition and gentlemanly manners.had gain ed him the esteem of the whole garrison, and no one more deeply deplores his unfortunate end than myself ; indeed, the accident has caused a great de :, pression in all our spirits:" The miSundeystandink ,which took place between the Bey of Tunis and Mr. Cox,, the American Con sul, so far back as August, has not been entirely ad justed. The dispute originated in the following cir cumstance :-An American ship was capttired by a French' privateer, and carried into Tunis, where she was purchased by a Minister of the .Bey's, put un der Tunisian. colours, and sent, to Malta. Her for mer supercargo being there, appealed to the British Court olAdmiralty to have her ,stopPed, in conse quence of.somelillegality inithe condemnatfon.§They declined interfering, as out of their jurisdiction. He then applled to the Tribunal at Melia : they stopped the ship; - and the case is now in adiudicAtion in that Court.' The Bey, on being informed of the deten tion of ihe vessel, immediately confiscated all the American property .in Tunis, amounting to 200,000 `dallars, - and though subsequently an off .r Was made i torestore vessel, he rejected all advances to acCom ,modation, unless he were permitted to retain the greater. part of the property he had so unjustly pos •sessed himself of. Crib •bas - not yet returned an answer' to Moli neux's challenge,-but he has given l's word that he will not fight again, unless for double the stakes he last contended for with Molineux, . On . Saturda y -last. Richman, the Black, introduced his friend.Motinenx on the Exchange, Wharq a sub scription.was wade for. the latter, amounting to 40 guineas. , • OneA)f the most desperate battles recorded in the annals of pugilism as fought on Friday last, On the \Valmer road, near Deal, b ween a Serje,ant in a•Militia Regiment stationed there, and a Mastur Tradesman," an inhabitant of Deal. The contest, which was of a truly sanguinary nature, lasted one hour and nine minutes, and was finally determined in favour of the man• of war, . who, though ex ceedingly beat himself; literally beat his man about the head and face to- such a degree, that his visage could hardly be recogniied as human. At setting to, the odds were five tot wo in favour of the Trades- Man, . Saturday morning an old honse in Mile-end Old Town fp,ll down' through the high winds. Forfu, nately no Ives ..?ere lost, the premises being empty. The 'teLiatiti bad qiiitted "them" but a few days. 0 VTIUGES I.N IRELAND. . • • DROGHEDA, DEC. t 8.--HSaturday nihln last, one of those nOtturtlal outrages which have,. an: t we re gret to say, continue to disgrice some ,ot the s, , uthern counties, took place within three miles of this Town. Nearlyone hundred villains, some of then armt'd, attacked the farce-house of Townley'. B. Hardwan, Esq. at Caulesfown, County of ME7ath„ and on 'ena tering it demolished all the furniture, pulled down the stairs, and broke ev,ry article 6 - 4 could. They afterwards destroyed thlploughs, harrows,g,it s, and pulled up some young quirks. .Mr. Hardman was in possession of C.Aulestown only since Novem ber last. . This work of destruEtion being accomplished, they deliberately proceeded to another farm' of this G.entleman'3, on the Nanny-wJter, which he has been for some years, improving, broke into th e hotie, took the Steward and his wile out o f b e d, threatened them with death. it they left ,the and abused the man. In this nea t c o tt a g e , w hztein Mr. Hardman lay frequently in slimmer, they terally destroyed every article of furniture, and then proceeded to the Tartu-yard, where they committed the same destruction as areaulevown. Such of the young trees in the plantation as they could not pull up they broke in two.. Ater accumplishin t ; their hellish. purpose,, they took six of his horses out of the stables,,and went off; but not until they warned the Steward to leave the place, its that was only their first visit !--They called thcinsOves •- derS. The horses were found next day Lica!' Lid. lewstown-hill. _ This daring and destruelive outrage ealli akind ( o r the, rumor interfttence of the neiglibuuriog Magistrates aid Gentlemen of the B rony of Du leek to check it in its bud. Perkins, alias .IPilliams, who absconded with the property of his emplo)ers, Messrs. Trio and Tyer, of Bristol, was apprehended a few days ago, in a 'poor lodging-house in Belfast. He was disguised in very coarse apparel and trowsers. He denied his name was Perkins, or that. he was the p.rson they ,were in search of ; but as he wanted a part of the fore finger of bis right hand, there iemained no doubt of his identity, and lie was immediately Corn, mitted to Carrickfergus jail under a guard. He has since given such infortnaiiOu as has led to the recovery ofa \ great deal of property. - One box of linen of great value was on board a vessel bound for America, above 8001. in good bills on Y:w York, have been found concealed in a haps.ack in. the county of Dowu. On Monday, the 17tb, six Thresluis, who for some tittle have been administering uttl.ful oaths, and committing depredations in Cannot:man, (t , ,0 of whom were dressed .in white shirts over their cloaths,) were lodged in the . County Jail of Gal way ; they were 'appreftehended, aper a long and fatiguing pursuit. Threellothers of the gang were killed, and one wounded ; another effected his escape after - being tahen. INDIA SPORTING lATELLIGENCE. On Saturday, the 4th of May, the Bobbery Hunt, met at the Rice d. at two o'clock,.to celebrate the return of Nicholas H ucky Smith, the father of the hunt, where a jackal' was unkennehed, which, however, unfortunately sheaved but tittle diversion, and was soon run down. A large and beiutiftil stag, of the.sambre or elk breed, was afterwards turned off, who after some little hallooing and cracking of whips, went iaway in gallant style taking across the bailee fields towards Phipp's oart, but having been too much pressed by some of the younger sportsmen, crossed the- race ground, and frocrt thence to the new road across the flits, vyhen he turned to the right, 'and made for Herman's oart,,flying the well-known ►A all that surrounded it in superior style. Here he alarmed a convivial party of Parsecs who were regaling thernselveS, and notwithstanding- the length of the chase, and the formidable at ray before him, .the undaunted annimal in the most sport ing manner cleared their table without breaking a single glass, cliatiged the'opposite wall in evally gallant style, and took towards Randal's lodge r dens. He was soen, however, dislodged from this retreat, and went away toward; the breach j -but being . headed, turned to the left, leaped a garden vt all of six feet, and faced Malabar Hill ; where he was taken unhurt, after sheaving excellent sport, and blowing some of the best horses in . the 6eld, 4 -Icing now again bard pressed, tie took shelter in a hut, to tie great annoyance of an i,hl woman, its solitary inhabitant, whb . made her exit through the roof in an instant, and shewed her agility in t man ner, quite dispr, pori ioned'to her years. • The diversion of the day did not end here. Thos unacbuainted with the sport 'may smile ; yet ;hos e who have experiences the capital runs at - forded by a paristidog, ,aid base had an opportUntry- of draw ing a comparison between them and the In , re re gular sports of the field, will not disdairOo be toll: that the party rode down two o f those flevt arid subtle. animals, atter -shewilig. more diversion' and gOod running, than is generally, experienced in the 'higher s yles of hunting in this country.—(l3 o ,hb uy Gazetie.). • HACIOTgY-COACHMEN.-A matter somewhat in teresting to the vublic was decided before the Com missioners last Friday. .A gentleman sumrircned a coachman for taking 3s. (H, for 'an eighteenpently fare. .The driver in his defence-said, that 23. of ht charg4 was for a glass broken in fr ont o f hi s C oach. The complainant positively swore, • that the gLiss was not broken by him, and'that he had every rea-. son to believe that it v.as done by the driver wit:t the buttend of [U . S whip. , The Commissiondrs, upoir hearing the whole of the case, hued the coachman in ios. penalty: A smatt shock of an earthquake was on the o'b tilt, felt at Boston, Salem, Exeter, Newbury -port, ;10 other places in Mass3claisetts :it:lk.. At ton it was so severe as to stop the clocks. • • . A female pauper, in the workhouse at Plymouth, wa, imprisoned last week, for preLtiaing the.destru,,- tion of that town and Stonehouse, with the country ft.)t stsven mth round, by an u*thqualie